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Oral history transcript, George L.P. Weaver, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

accurately predicted the coming results of the election. He was very pessimistic about Governor StevEmson and Senator lIIcF'arland's chances of election. I remember Hr. Symington suggesting - they were discussing who the new I'Iajority Leader should

what I was getting to. VM: He ran in 1941 and was defeated. OM: That's right. F: You were still pretty new on the ground yourself. OM: Well, that was the year we moved to Washington, you see. No. I misunderstood the date. That's the one you
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, George Mahon, interview 1 (I), 8/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of January of the year after one's election. I was a candidate in 1934 in the new district, the Nineteenth District, that cut Marvin Jones' district about half in two. I ran along with--there were nine of us--no incumbent [who] ran for the position and I
How he met LBJ in 1935; LBJ’s ambitions and absorption with politics; LBJ as a new Congressman and loss of the Appropriations Committee appointment to Albert Thomas; Sam Rayburn and the Board of Education; rural electrification; Civil Rights Act
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Warren Christopher, interview 2 (II), 11/18/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

believe Paul Ylvisaker was the principal spokesman for the state of New Jersey at which there were also representatives from the city of Newark, I continued to play a coordinating role for the goods and services that were made available by the federal

Oral history transcript, Raymond L. Telles, Jr., interview 1 (I), 3/1/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

officials. Now, just to give you an illustration of what I'm talking about, at one point the U.S. Customs and Immigrations had constructed a new office building at the border--a new U.S. Customs and Immigrations building there-F: This is at the bridge? T
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 1 (I), 6/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

interest for the community, to find out what went wrong. Then that was the period when there was some violence in Clinton, Tennessee, and some in New Orleans. I visited those cities. any political connotations at all. It did not have In those days
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Graham Purcell, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

for our This was some few months after Mr. Johnson became President. Well then, what contact did you have with the new President Johnson? Did he enlist your help, for example, for a legislative program? P: Oh, really not. I had not more than a total
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Samuel H. Shapiro, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

and they were negotiating for new contracts. At least, I imagine that's it. I never went into the details of that because I wasn't called in on it, and consequently, l didnl·t become a, part of it. But we did have some word with reference to the fact
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Samuel T. Williams, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

ty and we Ire goi ng to hang him and we mi ght as well get thi s trial over as quick as \'/e can. II So we got it over as qui ckly as vie could and we sentenced the man to death. The news got out. and people started calling Terrible nickname. me
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

, and getting out releases after he'd been on a trip. Tuen the late hours usually were ended up with Walter Jenkins who would be going over all the mail. And as he would sign it, I would fold and stuff it; and we usually ended up by getting it to the post

Oral history transcript, George Jacobson, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

. I started out, I guess you'd have to say, in something called the Chieu Hoi program, which had to do with getting defectors over on the government side. I did a study on that as my first move in this new role that I was playing, and then from
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Richard M. Helms, interview 2 (II), 9/16/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

the Washington Post? H: No. I have no inside information about what's going on there. I know only what I've read in the daily press, daily newspapers. Obviously, I'm keenly aware of the boat people, because after all, one gets constant letters from
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Jesse Curry, interview 1 (I), 8/18/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

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